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suffuse


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Definition:
to spread over or throughout, as a dye, liquid, emotions, etc.

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A flash of eagerness suffused the face of Alexey

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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his face was suffused with dark blood

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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perfume which suffused her soul.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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a flush of pleasure suffused Prince Andrew's face

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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The hall was not dark, nor yet was it lit, only by the high-hung bronze lamp; a warm glow suffused both it and the lower steps of the oak staircase.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
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Goddesses are possible now and the air suffuses with desire

Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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His face suffused with blood.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita.
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